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Between Uni and Physics and my awful discipline, it seems I haven't been updating my journals (or reading any of my f-lists/reading lists shame be upon me) of late but have no fear! Soon I will be stuck in my bedroom revising the hell out of Electrodynamics and Chaos theories (non-integer dimensions wf? The worst thing is that it actually makes some sense...) and so I'll probably make up for it.
Of late I have actually been reading books - non-physics related books as well! First there was 'Love and Other Demons' which was absolutely gorgeous, written in the sparse style I love so much where the beauty lies in the mere observation of human behaviour rather than in the florid prose (which can be nice - you're talking to a Mervyn Peake fangirl here - but often distracting) describing it.
I then devoured the jaw-droppingly (and perhaps surprisingly) awesome 'Empress' by Karen Miller and am currently finding myself epically (yes already! Not even 50 pages in and might I add that is a huge understatement btw. This book is making me sad like HP6&7 did) disappointed by 'The Riven Kingdom' which happens to be the sequel. I am determined to finish the entire trilogy but I have been warned not to get my hopes up about the next book, which is such a shame as I got a real buzz reading 'Empress'. Like reading Abercrombie for the first (and second and third and...) time. I will definitely try out the 'Kingmaker, Kingbreaker' duology though, as even the worst reviews have been very positive for those books.
But more on that later when I don't have a lab report to finish.
EDIT: Oh man I'm really not liking 'The Riven Kingdom' at all. It's nice to know I'm not the only one, but I think we're pretty much in the minority.
I smell a rant coming along...
Of late I have actually been reading books - non-physics related books as well! First there was 'Love and Other Demons' which was absolutely gorgeous, written in the sparse style I love so much where the beauty lies in the mere observation of human behaviour rather than in the florid prose (which can be nice - you're talking to a Mervyn Peake fangirl here - but often distracting) describing it.
I then devoured the jaw-droppingly (and perhaps surprisingly) awesome 'Empress' by Karen Miller and am currently finding myself epically (yes already! Not even 50 pages in and might I add that is a huge understatement btw. This book is making me sad like HP6&7 did) disappointed by 'The Riven Kingdom' which happens to be the sequel. I am determined to finish the entire trilogy but I have been warned not to get my hopes up about the next book, which is such a shame as I got a real buzz reading 'Empress'. Like reading Abercrombie for the first (and second and third and...) time. I will definitely try out the 'Kingmaker, Kingbreaker' duology though, as even the worst reviews have been very positive for those books.
But more on that later when I don't have a lab report to finish.
EDIT: Oh man I'm really not liking 'The Riven Kingdom' at all. It's nice to know I'm not the only one, but I think we're pretty much in the minority.
I smell a rant coming along...